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Samuel L. Clark, chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and one of 20 members of the AAMC advisory committee approving the test, said yesterday that portions of the test would attempt to measure such personality traits as "empathy with people, the ability to make decisions, uncertainty, and the capacity to cope with crisis...
Clark said that the new attempt to measure personality traits on the medical test is analogous to the U.S. Air Force's effort to select bomber pilots through psychological examinations during World...
...revised sections of the test include a mathematical section stressing the ability to work with numbers rather than knowledge of complicated formulae, and a verbal section posing clinical type situations rather than word analogies and synonym-antonym problems, according to Erdmann...
...test will retain an overall achievement section in biology, chemistry and physics as the third section but will discard the general information section, he added...
Erdmann said that the first step in developing the new test was to poll practicing physicians, internists, medical students and medical school professors to determine which traits were desirable in a doctor...